Lot 16
A SCOTTISH LATE GEORGIAN SUNDIAL BY MILLER & ADIE, EDINBURGH
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Scottish Works of Art & Whisky
Auction: 18 August 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
the bronze dial raised on a squared sandstone baluster column
Dimensions
Dial 38.5cm diameter; pedestal 74cm high, 96cm high overall
Footnote
Note: Alexander Adie was apprenticed to his uncle the eminent Scottish instrument maker John Miller in 1789. In 1804 his uncle took him into partnership trading under the name Miller and Adie. The business continued until Miller's death in 1815. Adie then continued operating under his own name, and later Adie & Son when his son joined the firm. Adie was particularly interested in meteorological instruments and is perhaps best known as the inventor of the Sympiesometer, a compact and lightweight type of barometer, in 1818. In recognition of his work he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1819.